For centuries, Hamlet has haunted both readers and critics by his infinite variety of moods and his inscrutable behavior. Hamlet is a man who defies strict definition or any linear character...

Shakespeare never allows the supernatural to take the upper hand in the dramatic action of his tragedies. Shakespeare’s tragic world is essentially the human world in which man initiates actions...

Hamlet’s madness, one of the complicated factors renders the understanding of Hamlet’s character exasperatingly difficult. At one point in the play, Hamlet assumes an “antique disposition”,...

Among the satirists of English literature, Alexander Pope occupies a great place. He belonged to the school of a juvenile. Pope had less of the mellow wisdom of Horace’s maturity and more of the...

The term "machinery" is invented by the critics, to signify the special role played by deities, angels, demons, and even by gods in a poem. In the ancient epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey and...

In English literature, the name of Alexander Pope will always remain immortal. In all of his works, he has proved himself to be a master of keen observation of life. Combining his artistic quality of...